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Editorials

Party on? BZP party pills in New Zealand

Paul Gee, John Fountain

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Through the looking glass: toward a brighter future for long-term care in a greying New Zealand

Mark Booth, Edward Alan Miller, Vincent Mor

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Original Articles

Benzylpiperizine-based party pills’ impact on the Auckland City Hospital Emergency Department Overdose Database (2002–2004) compared with ecstasy (MDMA or methylene dioxymethamphetamine), gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), amphetamines, cocaine, and alcohol

Lynn Theron, Karl Jansen, Jennifer Miles

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Screening and intervention for alcohol problems among patients admitted following unintentional injury: a missed opportunity?

Jamie Hosking, Shanthi Ameratunga, Chris Bullen, Ian Civil, Alex Ng, Anthony Rodgers

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Vincristine for the treatment of Kasabach-Merritt syndrome: recent New Zealand case experience

Kimberley Thomson, Ralph Pinnock, Lochie Teague, Rachel Johnson, Noel Manikkam, Ross Drake

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Concussion clinic referral demographics and recommendations: a retrospective analysis

Hamish Alexander, Nicola Shelton, Jacob Fairhall, Harry McNaughton

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General practitioner diagnosis and management of acute knee injuries: summary of an evidence-based guideline

Gillian Robb, Duncan Reid, Bruce Arroll, Rod Jackson, Felicity Goodyear-Smith

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Consumers’ knowledge, perceptions, and responsiveness to direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines

Janet Hoek, Ninya Maubach

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Case Reports

A huge abdominal lump with multiple bony bumps

Ujjwal Bansal, Dipesh Duttaroy, Jitendra Jagtap, Gunjan Patel

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Multi modality treatment of an extensive pleural thymoma

Elizabeth Clayton, Yasotha Kathiravel, Harsh Singh

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Viewpoint

What part does a national health call centre play in an integrated primary care service?

Ian St George, Matthew Cullen, Michelle Branney

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Annual Meeting in Dunedin: medical inspection of schools

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Medical Image

Exstrophy of the cloaca

Neetu Kumar, Navroop Johal, Imran Mushtaq

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Colchicine: time to rethink

George Varughese, Abraham Varghese, Abd Tahrani

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Pharmac dogma

Bill Douglas

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GP work: what is it worth?

Bill Douglas

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Obituary

Edwin Keith Macleod

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Notice

Medical Benevolent Fund

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Book Reviews

Osteoporosis and the osteoporosis of rheumatic diseases (NE Lane, PN Sambrook)

Min Lok Wong

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The motoneurone and its muscle fibres (Daniel Kernell)

Simeon Cairns

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